ASL 3.380 still does not install

Hi,

the new beta still refuses to install on our dual athlon board (BUT with only _one_ Athlon XP installed!).

ASL 3.20 works without any problems, but I would like to update for the vlan option.

Board: Tyan Tiger MPX, S2466N-4M
1 x Athlon XP 1600+
1 GB RAM
3Ware IDE Raid (Mirror)
2 x Syskonnect SK 9821

While booting from CD, the system hangs just with the following message:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
INIT: version 2.78 booting

This also appeared with 3.318.

Any ideas?

Christopher

P.S.: Yes, I know, dual cpus are not supported. But you only get two 64Bit/66 MHz PCI slots with a dual board. And I only use one CPU.

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0 oliver.desch over 22 years ago

Christopher,

maybe a stupid question but have you
tried to install your CD on another PC.

If yes and it is working we have to possibilities
first is to note down your board as 'reported to be
unsupported' or second (prefered) you send your
hardware and we will check it! I think you still
know my address ;-)

read you
o|iver
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0 Christopher Odenbach over 22 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

Originally posted by oliver.desch:
Christopher,

maybe a stupid question but have you
tried to install your CD on another PC.

Yes, of course. As I wrote before, I have tried it on another dual cpu machine (siemens primergy, dual xeon): ran smoothly (and did recognize the scsi cdrom this time - well done!).

Well, I think in a few days you will find quite a large packet in your ...err mailbox. [:)]s offer!

Regards,

Christopher
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0 ozone over 22 years ago in reply to Christopher Odenbach

Hi. Been a long time since I was here..

Well, tried to upgrade my fw with 3.380 and it installed fine. But...

After a reboot it simply stopped at

Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed

After an hour or so of retrying with different RAM and even another HD, I went back to 3.041 witch simply installed and was happy as can bee [;)] ..

My machine is a AMD K6-2 450 with 128 Mb RAM and a 6 GB Western Digital.

Please advise off the next release
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0 ozone over 22 years ago in reply to ozone

Ohh.. forgot.. When rebooting the 3.041 I get a

Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed

and it goes on..

Might be something.

Personaly I think it is something with the CPU. [:(]
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0 techno.kid over 22 years ago in reply to ozone

Hi ozone,

looks like they "forgot" the K6 support. I have the same problem with a PI/MMX.
Somewhere in the bb there is a post that they will fix that in the next update...

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0 techno.kid over 22 years ago in reply to ozone

Hi ozone,

looks like they "forgot" the K6 support. I have the same problem with a PI/MMX.
Somewhere in the bb there is a post that they will fix that in the next update...

techno.kid
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0 ozone over 22 years ago in reply to techno.kid

Ohhh.. do I look forward for that update.. [;)]
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0 Christopher Odenbach over 22 years ago in reply to ozone

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Eventually the problem disappeared by removing one memory module. Both modules run fine when inserted alone.

But: Some combinations of modules work, some don't.

The board has four memory slots, numbered from 1 to 4.

Combinations

1 and 2 does not work
1 and 3 works
1 and 4 does not work
2 and 3 works
2 and 4 works
3 and 4 does not work

Very strange, but actually not a problem anymore, so thanks for investigating.

Regards,

Christopher
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0 ozone over 22 years ago in reply to Christopher Odenbach

Hmm..

I was using only one RAM slot (128 Mb card) and I tried slot 1 and 2. Not 3 and 4 (perhaps I should have done that - but the thought never occoured to me)

I think I will just wait for next update.
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